RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 September 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

. KOLTCHAK'S SOLID ADVANCE. » JAPANESE TROOPS IN SIBERIA. * Bj Telegraph.—Press Asm.—Copyright. London, Sept. 23. {Omsk telegrams report that Koltchak is advancing on all parts of the front. !There is fierce fighting in the direction pf Kurgan. A wireless message from Moscow states that a bomb was thrown into the guard-room of the premises occupied by Admiral Koltchak. Six were killed and twelve injured. Paris, Sept. 23. Japan will place troops at the Allies' disposal to relieve the Czecho-Slovaka in Siberia. BOLSHEVIKS* SEVERE MEASURES, j EXECUTIONS CONTINUING. j London, Sept. 23. j At Moscow the All-Russian Commission discovered an anti-Soviet organisation called the National Ceptre, with wide- j spread ramifications. It was chiefly coifiposed of Cadets, and also contained a few moderate Monarchists and Men-J sheviks. Documents were found proving that the Centre had communicated with Deniken. The Commission executed 66 persons, including Stekepkin, ex-member of the Duma, who was chairman of the National Centre, Professors Astrakoff and Volkoff, Prince Obolensky, and two generals. Those awaiting trial include Prince Asdronikoff, allegedly one of Rasputin's accomplices, and Androzoloff, who wbb * Menshevik.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. QUARTER OF RUSSIA WON. BY DENHKEJfS ARMIES, Received Sept. 25,12.10 a.m. London, Sept. 23. • It id authoritatively announced that Genef&l Deniken has won albout a quartet of European Russia, with a population of thirty million, from the BoV sheviks. and occupies the third, fourth, and fifth great cities of Russia. His tunnies number 300,000 to 400,000. ©enter. ■ A CITY OF HORRORS. London, Sept. 23. The Times' correspondent describes' Kieff as a citv of horrors. During the ■Bolsheviks' 200 days' occupation they carried out hundreds of executions daily. The corpses were left lying in the streets till they reached a horrible state of putrefaction. One hundred and forty corpses of prisoners locked in a small apartment were left to rot. The walls of a garage behind a gloomy, tree-shaded house were used as a place of execution, and were pitted by revolver bullets. The walls were also splashed with blood and the floor covered with thick glutinous blood. An English governess living near by was kept awake all night by the awful shrieks of the victims. The executioners, including a female, Rosa Schwarz, lived above the shambles, j Their rooms were found to be littered with playing cards, gramaphones, and dog-eared novels. —Times.